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‘Revolutionary changes have some specific characteristics.’ Discuss with examples.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Revolution is the limiting case of social change. Theda Skocpol (States and Social Revolutions, 1979) defined social revolutions as rapid, basic transformations of a society's state and class structures, carried through in part by revolts from below — a definition that already names the features distinguishing revolution from reform, coup or rebellion.

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